What’s a cryptid: A cryptid is an animal whose existence is unconfirmed by science but supported by alleged sightings or physical evidence, unlike purely mythical creatures with no modern encounters.

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Thanks to fate, luck or instinct, an Australian marine scientist made a “rarest of the rare” find. A quarter-century later it ...

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It’s a colossal find. Australian scientists detected signs of a super-rare giant squid during a watershed study, marking the ...

Learn how new research is overturning assumptions about marine ecosystems during the Late Cretaceous.

Today marks the very day over 90 years ago that the first modern sighting of the now-famous Loch Ness Monster was reported.

According to Celtic and Norse mythology, selkies are seals who can become human by shedding their "sealskin" on land. Anyone ...